Earlier this week I flew through HKG. At the cargo terminal I saw an aircraft -- possibly a 747F -- with a white tail that has a light green half-moon on the trailing part of the tail. The half-moon was surrounded by a light blue line.
Ring any bells for anyone?
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BreninTW wrote:Earlier this week I flew through HKG. At the cargo terminal I saw an aircraft -- possibly a 747F -- with a white tail that has a light green half-moon on the trailing part of the tail. The half-moon was surrounded by a light blue line.
Ring any bells for anyone?
Can you be more specific about the date & time please. (prefer UTC format)
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I would say that it rings a bell along the line of Air Hong Kong.
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PanzerPowner wrote:I would say that it rings a bell along the line of Air Hong Kong.
If I look up pictures of Air Hong Kong I only see a yellow tail, he's talking about a white tail. Also I don't see a moon on their tail.
I'd say the moon indicates towards some Islamic country, but so far I haven't been able to figure out which one.
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PatrickZ80 wrote:Does PIA have a Cargo Division?PanzerPowner wrote:I would say that it rings a bell along the line of Air Hong Kong.
If I look up pictures of Air Hong Kong I only see a yellow tail, he's talking about a white tail. Also I don't see a moon on their tail.
I'd say the moon indicates towards some Islamic country, but so far I haven't been able to figure out which one.
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Can’t explain the blue, but Jade Cargo?
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Jade Cargo no longer exist although they had a small green logo on a white tail.
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Is it the Kalitta Pacific Air Cargo livery.
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Cunard wrote:Jade Cargo no longer exist although they had a small green logo on a white tail.
Just checked: ceased ops in 2011! Wow, I’m getting out of date...
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Maybe it's the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's government/private 747?
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SheikhDjibouti wrote:BreninTW wrote:Earlier this week I flew through HKG. At the cargo terminal I saw an aircraft -- possibly a 747F -- with a white tail that has a light green half-moon on the trailing part of the tail. The half-moon was surrounded by a light blue line.
Ring any bells for anyone?
Can you be more specific about the date & time please. (prefer UTC format)
It would have been around 9AM HKG time, Tuesday 5 December.
The tail looked something like this (excuse my lack of artistic talents!)
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I have tried to post this twice, if there are a double post of images, I am sorry. But look up photo ID 4524967 in the database. Your drawing looks like that plane, which is what I suggested earlier.
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csturdiv wrote:I have tried to post this twice, if there are a double post of images, I am sorry. But look up photo ID 4524967 in the database. Your drawing looks like that plane, which is what I suggested earlier.
Except it lacks the green half-moon ... which is on the rear part of the tail.
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csturdiv wrote:I have tried to post this twice, if there are a double post of images, I am sorry. But look up photo ID 4524967 in the database. Your drawing looks like that plane, which is what I suggested earlier.
There's an easy trick to include a photo in a posting. It's like this:
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[photoid]4524967[/photoid]Which results in this:
And as it turns out, that's not the plane we're looking for.
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Yeah thanks, that was cleared up a few hours ago....see the post right above yours.
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I ran a replay of that time on flightradar24 and at around 0320UTC (I guess that's 1120 HK time), there is a Global Africa Cargo MD-11 appearing, registration Z-GAA:
Now that's not green and blue but green and red, but so far it would be my best guess.
Now that's not green and blue but green and red, but so far it would be my best guess.
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OlafW wrote:I ran a replay of that time on flightradar24 .
Most excellent!
(That was the route I was heading down when I asked for the exact timing)
I do believe you have nailed it. Let's hope the OP agrees.
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OlafW wrote:I ran a replay of that time on flightradar24 and at around 0320UTC (I guess that's 1120 HK time), there is a Global Africa Cargo MD-11 appearing, registration Z-GAA:
Now that's not green and blue but green and red, but so far it would be my best guess.
That could well have been it! Thanks.
I was second-guessing myself on the blue ... so it's very possible I didn't remember it correctly. I only saw a short glimpse of it, so I didn't pick up the two shades of green either (I wasn't able to see the tail-mounted engine, which would have been a dead giveaway as well!)
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